1. Your Data Any Place, Any Time Server Consolidation

2. Improve Management Reduce Servers Interoperability Forward Consolidation Backward Consolidation Reducing the Cost of Running Servers Rationale for Consolidation

3. SQL Server 2008Server Consolidation

4. Flexibility Flexibility

6. Centralizes database server administration

7. Supports workload isolation

9. Centralizes server administration

10. Supports isolation of:

11. Workload

12. Security

13. Database server administration

14. Compatibility

16. Centralizes server hardware administration

17. Supports full server isolation

18. Requires a single license per processor

20. SQL Server Integration Services

21. Detach and attach

22. Backup and restore

23. Upgrade directly from previous versionsMigration Technologies

24. Manageability Manageability

26. Instances

27. Editions

29. ConfigurationDeclarative Management Framework Define policies on one instance, and apply to many instances Enforce policies: Proactively through triggers After changes through Service Broker On a scheduled basis through SQL Server Agent On an ad-hoc basis

30. MonitoringPerformance Studio

31. Manageability Scalability and Performance

32. Resource UtilizationResource Governor Differentiate workloads Based on application, user, etc. Define resource utilization limits CPU Memory Covered Scenarios: Preventing runaway queries Predictable concurrent execution of different-size workloads Workload prioritization

33. Scaling Up 64-bit scalability Take advantage of 64-bit hardware Hot-add memory and CPU Add hardware without downtime Native data compression Reduce storage requirements Increase performance for high I/O workloads

34. Summary

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